How a scholar of the nation’s Presidency swiftly became its Presidential front-runner.

“Politics is serious in Iceland, not least because of its self-image as the Oldest Democracy in the World, a view questioned by only a few academic skeptics—one of them being Guðni Jóhannesson. On the plane to Reykjavík, I finished his “History of Iceland,” the best one-volume study of the country to be written in English”.

Sorgente: Iceland’s Historic Candidate